Re: [MiNT] [Apps] Bitmap View

[George Nakos <ggn@thebat.net>]

Hello Peter,

Sunday, August 29, 2010, 3:32:46 PM, you wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:02:11 , George Nakos <ggn@thebat.net> wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> Sunday, August 29, 2010, 1:55:40 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:43:02 , Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com> wr
>> ote:
>> >>
>> >> 29 aug 2010 kl. 12.34 skrev Peter Slegg:
>> >>
>> >> > I don't know if this is a Mint or Milan issue but I have
>> >> > never managed to get Bitmap View 4 to install.
>> >> >
>> >> > Has anyone managed it ?
>> >>
>> >> How about you trying it on TOS first? Then you'd know if it's the Milan
>> >> or the AES.
>> >>
>> >> -- PeP
>>
>> > I have an installation that I created about 6 years ago, I think I
>> > did it with TOS and I checked again and the app runs under TOS so it
>> > looks like a Mint/aes issue. I don't think it ran with NAES either.
>>
>> > It used to be on http://www.raceme.org  but I can find it on the
>> > kurobox ftp server just now.
>>
>> I  downloaded  it from the link above and installed it in hatari. It's
>> currently working very hard decoding a jpeg image.
>>
>> One  thing  I  noticed  is  that it dies a horrible death in steem. It
>> might  be  because  it's  trying to install Brainstorm's jpeg decoder.
>> Soooo, it might be not working on your milan because of this.
>>

> I don't think it even gets that far, the "initialisation du memory manager"
> box pops up and then the app dies.

> Digilab by Frederic Bayle and Eric da Cunha still mangles it's toolbox icons.

Ok, just got access to my Falcy, so I booted it up. Results:

- 030, TOS - works
- 030, MiNT - works
- 060, TOS - crashes at exactly the same point as you
- 060, MiNT - idem

I can only think of 3 options:

a) Forget about it,
b) It's GPLed (the source is available at his website), so pick up the
source and fix it,
c) Use another program. I tried decoding a 100k jpeg in 030 mode (with
Brainstorm's  jpeg  dsp proggie installed) and it took about 5 mins or
maybe more. Then out of habit I double clicked on the picture while in
060/MiNT  and  zview  decoded  and  showed  it  in <1sec. So it's ball
breaking slow to begin with.


-- 
Best regards,
 George                            mailto:ggn@thebat.net